Historic Native Peoples of Texas

Name: Historic Native Peoples of Texas
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ISBN: 9780292717930

ISBN-10: 0292717938

ISBN-13: 9780292717930

Edition: 2008

Authors: William C. Foster, Alston V. Thoms

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Several hundred tribes of Native Americans were living within or hunting and trading across the present-day borders of Texas when Cabeza de Vaca and his shipwrecked companions washed up on a Gulf Coast beach in 1528. Over the next two centuries, as Spanish and French expeditions explored the state, they recorded detailed information about the locations and lifeways of Texas's Native peoples. Using recent translations of these expedition diaries and journals, along with discoveries from ongoing archaeological investigations, William C. Foster here assembles the most complete account ever published of Texas's Native peoples during the early historic period (AD 1528 to 1722). Foster describes…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 3/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 366
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.100

An award-winning historian and fellow of the Texas State Historical Association, William C. Foster is the author of Historic Native Peoples of Texas and Spanish Expeditions into Texas, 1689–1768 and editor of Texas and Northeastern Mexico, 1630–1690 by Juan Bautista Chapa.



Foreword



Preface


Introduction



Between the Lower Brazos and the Lower Colorado Rivers


Chapter Supplement: Study Area I



Between the Lower Colorado and the San Antonio Rivers


Chapter Supplement: Study Area II



The Central Texas Coast


Chapter Supplement: Study Area III



South Texas


Chapter Supplement: Study Area IV



The Texas Trans-Pecos


Chapter Supplement: Study Area V



The Texas Southern Plains


Chapter Supplement: Study Area VI



Northeast Texas


Chapter Supplement: Study Area VII



The Upper Texas Coast


Chapter Supplement: Study Area VIII



Conclusions



Selected Animals Reported on Spanish and French Expeditions into Texas, 1528-1722



Selected Trees and Other Plants Reported on Spanish and French Expeditions into Texas, 1528-1722


Notes


Bibliography


Index